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How to give up alcohol
It made me
successful
 "Every day is a new day. Every day I choose not to drink."
How I did it: It was a struggle. I drank every day after work. I drank alone - was passed out by 9pm. I would already shower and get everything ready for the next day, because I was planning on passing out. I woke up every morning exhausted, hung over, and thirsty. I would drink before going out. I blacked out every night. I never turned down a drink. I would drive to get cigarettes (I have since quit). I would drive to get food. I was the drunk drivers you hear about on tv - but I couldn't ever admit that. I cried every day. I was alone. I was sad. I hated my job. I felt like I had no friends. I could out drink everyone I knew, and thought it was a game. Today is 386, but some days it feels like day 1. I'm waiting for it to get easier. It is easier. It's nice to have that many days behind me - makes it harder to go back. I don't want to go back. Who would want to go back to what I wrote in the first paragraph? I am happy now. I don't cry. I wake up feeling good. I go to bed at a normal hour. I don't waste my money on alcohol. I don't drink and drive. I remember everything - I never black out. I got promoted at work. I started taking a dance class - something I wanted to do before I quit drinking. I have good friends (who still drink) that understand. I go to happy hours and drink a diet coke. I get to live my life the way I want versus dependent on alcohol.
Lessons & tips: Weigh your options. Why is it worth it? What are the benefits? There are none. Life is better without being drunk all the time - trust me. Give it a chance. Be strong. Resources: I went to an outpatient program that rocked. We didn't go through the 12 steps per se, just got ready for them. Got to understand more about addiction and such. I was the only one there out of choice, but everyone was in the same position - newly sober. Most didn't want to be there or were there because of court order. It was very cool to see them to come to terms with it and recognize it was benefical. I hope they are sober still. AA is also very good. Get your support group. Get someone you can count on, someone you can talk to that has been there.
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How I did it: I took a look at the messes I was getting into when drunk and decided enough was enough! I haven't been alcohol free for particularly long, but I'm already feeling better for it. Nights out no longer mean hangovers, apologies and injuries the following day, which was my main reason for stopping - I never had a drink problem, but I was fed up of embarrassing myself and losing an entire weekend to a hangover.I had a nigh… Read how I did it…
spasibasong is back in the real world, trying to stay sane.
How I did it: I drank mostly during college to be social. Afterwards, on my own, I would have wine. I was never dependent. Then I dated an alcoholic, and the way he allowed alcohol to rule his life, deciding where he would go, how he would behave, just soured me on the substance. I stopped.Occasionally I will sample a taste, but I turn down drinks regularly. People accuse me of being moralistic, but I just don't like the w… Read how I did it…
CarolinaJane is on a high
How I did it: I've been consciously struggling to improve my health for about 5 years. I kept trying, and I kept failing. I drank most evenings, not masses, but something every evening. When I went out socially, I drank more, my speech would be slurred, I would forget things, I would smoke, I would fall asleep, I would wake up and write the whole day off. In fact, I was completely wasting my life, my precious time. The mor… Read how I did it…
Don’t want to drink any more. Just had enough. Want my life back. My late mother and father gave me a good brain and a healthy body and I am just abusing their memory and their legacy by screwing my life with poisonous booze!
I am so sick of drinking alcohol. I can’t have just 1 or 2 it turns into a bottle or more. I would like to prove to myself (and others) that i can go for a length of time without drinking. Maybe a month to start??
I so need encouragement.
Help!!!
Day 1! Turning point was yesterday (Sunday) – lunch turned into bottles and bottles which became me sobbing into soup and future husband despairing at the fact that I can’t get on it without wiping myself out. Monday morning, vomit before work…this has to stop. I’m so sick of feeling like this.
My goal is no alcohol for the month of September. Hopefully then October. We’ll take it from there.
I am a binge drinker , my life is terrible and wake up each morning hating myself for the things i do when i am drunk and the money i have wasted on the drink – i have been married twice and now decide today monday the 02nd august 2009 is the day i give up the bottle for good
i hope it works it is final chance
Well it’s day 7 of my quest to give up alcohol for good. Rather than count the days off on a calendar I have set a timer on my iPhone so it is reasuring that I am making more progress. It’s only a week but I feel so much better already.
I feel like I am making better decisions in other aspects of my life which is great.
I have had 3 occasions that I have had to decline the booze and after a bit of resustence people generally leave you alone.
Need to keep the momentum going.
Most evenings I have a couple of beers or glasses of wine, and really I wonder why. It’s a small but constant waste of my money and health. Worse is when I drink a lot. I’m not by any means one of those people who act like a total idiot when drunk, but I think I give a poor impression of myself, or I say things that I wouldn’t sober. I dislike the loss of control, most of all when my memory blacks out. Stopping drinking should be easy, but probably won’t be. Everyone I know expects me to drink – that’s the problem.
So hard sometimes because most things social are based around alcohol.I gave up once for 18 months and started again (sigh),so i know i can do it if i really want to.
I am 43 and I have found over the past few years that I have been drinking more and more each evening, to the point I am drinking a bottle of wine or more. It just crept up on me. I need to give this up. For the past few nights I have restricted myself to one glass. Soon I am going to try going without one. Not easy.
Hi all…I have made the decision to quit the booze…overtime it has went from 1 bottle of wine to 1.5 sometimes 2 I am so fed up with the way I feel with it.
I am lucky in a sense as i work away for 28 days and have 28 days off but it is the 28days off is the problem as when i am at work there is no booze.
The 28 days at home is difficult as i have too much time in the evening but i am going to do my best and i would like someone who is going through the same that we could chat and encourage each other.
Regards
Brandane1964
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fordog asks,
“Need to stop drinking alcohol. I've been drinking way too much and it's making me depressed. I don't know when to stop once I start and always feel so bad the next day (which is today). I'm not going to drink again. Please help.”
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